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Job 15:2

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Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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  1. Job 6:26Rank 1 from verse 2
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    26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

  2. Job 8:2Rank 2 from verse 2
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    2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

  3. Hosea 12:1Rank 3 from verse 2
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    1EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

  4. James 3:13Rank 4 from verse 2
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    13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

  5. Job 11:2–3Rank 5 from verse 2
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    2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

    3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

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Job 15:2

COMBINED MEANING

should

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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

wise

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Sense 1: Possessing or exercising understanding, knowledge, prudence, judgment, discernment, or skill; also a wise person. Sense 2: In phrases such as in no wise, way, manner, respect, or degree.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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utter

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1. To speak, declare, or make known. 2. Outermost or complete.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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vain

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Empty, fruitless, ineffective, unprofitable, worthless, false, unsubstantial, or conceited.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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fill

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Sense 1: To make full, occupy capacity, satisfy, supply what is lacking, or complete. Sense 2: A full or satisfying amount or measure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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east

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The direction of sunrise; lands or regions toward that direction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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wind

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Sense 1: Air in motion; a current of air. Sense 2: Breath or a movement of air from breathing. Sense 3: By figure, something empty, unstable, or passing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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15:1THEN answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

15:2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

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15:3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

15:4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

15:6Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

15:7Art thou the first man that was born? or wast thou made before the hills?

15:8Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

15:9What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

15:10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

15:11Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

15:12Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

15:13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

15:14What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15:15Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

15:17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

15:18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

15:19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

15:20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

15:21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

15:22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

15:23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

15:24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

15:25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

15:27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

15:28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

15:29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

15:30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

15:31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

15:32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

15:33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

15:34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

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